He was beautiful. He was gifted. He was doomed.
In the wake of his disappearance, his band, Manic Street Preachers, scaled previously unimagined heights, but Richey remains sadly missed.
Some of Richey's best...
...and the promo video for a song about Richey by the latter-day Manics, which for some reason always manages raises the hair on the back of my neck when the stages merge at the end...

